The 2020 Steam Autumn Sale is now live, with great deals across the Steam catalog through Black Friday and Cyber Monday, ending at 10am Pacific on Tuesday, December 1st. Discover featured titles and franchises, personalized recommendations, plus browse top titles by tag when you shop the Autumn Sale now!


Join us in our fifth annual Steam Awards by nominating your favorite new games of 2020 across 10 categories, and earn profile XP and badges for participating! Your nominations will help determine the finalists for each category. In December, you can vote on the winners for each category during the Steam Winter Sale. Select your nominations today!


New Autumn Sale animated avatar frames and background are also available now in the Points Shop.

We're continuing our Top Release series with a look at games released in October. As with past months, this list highlights the top 20 products measured by revenue generated during the first two weeks after release. We’re also highlighting the top 5 free-to-play products, measured by their unique player counts following release.

October culminated with Steam's annual Halloween sale, so it's no surprise that the Top Releases of the month include a number of horror games that really resonated with players. In Silence provides a unique twist on the survival-horror multiplayer experience, while Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope and Amnesia: Rebirth take players on fresh new narratives that are sure to deliver plenty of chills. Not every player has the fortitude to jump straight into a horror game, so thankfully October saw a wide variety of other genres and themes to go for. From the immersive and epic RPG experiences in Baldur's Gate 3 and The Outer Worlds to the action-packed multiplayer hits of STAR WARS™: Squadrons & FIFA 21, October's list features plenty of choices for every type of player.   

We're also excited to see new teams finding success on Steam. With October's list, we are welcoming 12 development teams who are bringing a product to Steam for the very first time. Congrats and welcome to (DOMO Studio, Echtra Inc., Jagex, LiLith, https://store.steampowered.com/app/1377580/Soulworker/., MOTIVE, Nolla Games, Ravenhood Games, Redstone Interactive, Tactical Adventures, Tuxedo Labs & YC Games).

These teams come together in a variety of ways, so for this month's list, we caught up with some of them to hear a bit about their unique stories:

Teardown - Tuxedo Labs

As the name might imply, Tuxedo Labs began as a technology experiment with Dennis Gustafsson designing a system to create fully destructible voxel worlds. As the experiment progressed, Dennis realized that smashing environments made of voxels could make for a pretty compelling game. After bringing along a team of industry veterans that he'd met through the years, the sandbox heist was brought to life. 

Solasta: Crown of the Magister - Tactical Adventures

After 20 years in the gaming industry, both working at Ubisoft and co-founding Amplitude Studios, Mathieu Girard formed Tactical Adventures to turn his lifelong passion for tabletop RPGs into a game. Not only does the team at Tactical Adventures come from all corners of the video game industry, most have plenty of experience with tabletop RPGs as well. So naturally, each week the team shares in some epic tabletop campaigns.

Beyond the Wire - Redstone Interactive

What began as a small exploratory side project within Offworld Industries, slowly grew into a brand new team: Redstone Interactive. Formed by veterans of Squad and Post Scriptum along with passionate members of their respective modding communities, Redstone is now completely dedicated to the Early Access development of their debut true-to-life WWI FPS, Beyond the Wire. Time will tell what mods the Redstone community creates, possibly cultivating the next generation of this development legacy.

Noita - Nolla Games

While working on a pixel-physics prototype in a coworking space in Helsinki, Finland, lead designer Petri Perho recruited fellow developers Arvi and Olli to form Nolla Games and create their innovative and highly successful debut: Noita. All three members of the Nolla Games team got their starts on Steam with completely separate games that many fans will immediately recognize.

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Here's the list of October's top releases ordered by release date (we've organized this list on a handy sale page too):


STAR WARS™: Squadrons
MOTIVE (Canada)


Baldur's Gate 3
Larian Studios (Belgium)


EA SPORTS™ FIFA 21
Electronic Arts (USA)


The Survivalists
Team17 Digital Ltd (UK)


Second Extinction™
Systemic Reaction™ (Sweden)


Torchlight III
Echtra Inc. (USA)


The Jackbox Party Pack 7
Jackbox Games, Inc. (USA)


RuneScape ®
Jagex (UK)


Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
Tantalus Media & Forgotten Empires (Australia & USA)


Noita
Nolla Games (Finland)


Crown Trick
NExT Studios (China)


In Silence
Ravenhood Games (Turkey)


Amnesia: Rebirth
Frictional Games (Sweden)


Solasta: Crown of the Magister
Tactical Adventures (France)


Beyond The Wire
Redstone Interactive (Canada)


The Outer Worlds
Obsidian Entertainment (USA)


Ghostrunner
One More Level, 3D Realms & Slipgate Ironworks™ (Poland & Denmark)


Xuan-Yuan Sword VII
SOFTSTAR & DOMO Studio (Taiwan)


The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
Supermassive Games (UK)


Teardown
Tuxedo Labs (Sweden)

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And here are the Top 5 free-to-play titles from September, ranked by total unique player count:


RuneScape ®
Jagex (UK)


Eternal Return: Black Survival
Nimble Neuron (Republic of Korea)


Action Taimanin
LiLith (Japan)


Soulworker
Lion Games Co., Ltd. (Republic of Korea)


Blood of Steel
YC Games (China)

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If you're curious about previous months, here are more Top Release lists:

• April 2020
  
• May 2020
  
• June 2020
  
• July 2020
  
• August 2020
  
• September 2020

Lace up those gloves and pick up some skull-crackin' deals on the best fighting games on Steam, on now until November 16th at 10am Pacific! From 2D and 3D Fighters to Party Brawlers and Beat ‘em ups, the Fighting Game Sale comes in like a spinning piledriver with discounts on games like:

TEKKEN 7
Street Fighter V
Mortal Kombat 11
Injustice 2
GUILTY GEAR xrd -REVELATOR-
Streets of Rage 4
Castle Crashers
SOULCALIBUR VI
THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIV STEAM EDITION
Slap City
BlazBlue Centralfiction

...and so much more!

So what are you waiting for, Fighting Game Fans? Dropkick on in here:
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/FightingGameSale

Get into the Halloween spirit with the Steam Halloween Sale, on now until November 2nd at 10am Pacific.

Reap ghoulish discounts on horror and Halloween-themed games across the Steam catalog. The sale also features other great games that have special Halloween-themed activities and updates that are happening during the Halloween Sale, such as:

• RUST's Halloween Update
  
• The Long Dark's Escape the Darkwalker Halloween Event
  
• Dead By Daylight's The Eternal Blight Event
  
• No Man's Sky's Halloween Update
  
• Graveyard Keeper’s Third DLC, Game of Crone
  
• Deep Rock Galactic's Deep Rock Ghoulactic Update
  
• Don't Starve Together's Return of Them: Forgotten Knowledge and Hallowed Nights
  
• King of Crabs Devil's Island Halloween Event
  
• Hello Neighbor 2 Alpha 1.5
  
• For Honor's Monsters of the Otherworld Event
  
• SMITE's The Reaping 2020
  
• SUPERHOT's Pumpkin Challenge
  
• Madden NFL 21 Ultimate Team: Most Feared
  
• Project Winter's Cabin Fever: Trick or Traitor Event
  
• DOOM Eternal's The Ancient Gods Part One
  
• Two Point Hospital's Culture Shock plus Fancy Dress Pack
  
• Armello's Skeeve's Curiosities
  
• Them's Fightin' Herds Return of the Frightenin' Herds
  
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege's Sugar Fright

You can also deck out your profile in our most haunted Halloween art yet, designed by Claire Hummel (@shoomlah on Twitter) and available now in the Points Shop as an
avatar frame, animated avatar, and animated profile background.